The problem with a sporty company day out is almost never the sport. It is the gap. There is the colleague who rides three times a week, and the one who has not been on a bike in ten years. On normal bikes, those two do not see each other all day.
The e-bike makes that gap disappear. It is the reason we now offer nothing else to companies. Here is what a day looks like, what it includes, and what it costs.
Electric assistance is a leveller
On an e-bike, everyone picks their own assistance level. The fit one rides in eco mode and works hard; the beginner rides in turbo and keeps up without suffering. Both reach the top at the same time, and they get there mid-conversation.
That is the whole difference with a normal bike outing, where the group strings out over two kilometres on the first climb, the fastest wait around getting cold, and the slowest spend the day apologising. On e-bikes, there are no slowest.
The practical consequence: no riding level is required. Being able to ride a bike is enough. If you want the detail of what assistance really changes in the mountains, we wrote it up here: e-bike or classic mountain bike.
What the day looks like
You arrive, the bikes are already set up to each person's size, helmets and protection are out and labelled. A twenty-minute briefing: how the assistance works, how to brake, how to position yourself on a descent. It is short, and it is enough.
Then you ride. On large groups we split into ability groups, each with its own guide and its own route, so that nobody is bored and nobody suffers. A viewpoint stop, lunch in a restaurant, in a mountain hut or as a buffet in the open, then the afternoon loop.
The photos and the video of the day reach you within the week, ready for your intranet, your social channels, or simply for the pleasure of the team.
Half day or full day, your call. And if the morning is taken by a seminar, we organise the room and the catering too: you keep a single point of contact.
Five formats, depending on what you are after
The guided tour. Two to four hours on easy tracks, with a panorama at the end. The simplest way to introduce a team to the e-bike.
The gourmet ride. A loop from producer to producer: cellar, cheese dairy, mountain farm, tastings and a proper meal at the end. The effort stays light, the table does not.
The e-bike escape game. A map, riddles, teams. This is the format that mixes departments best, because solving a riddle has nothing to do with pedalling fast.
The bike park session. Half a day of skills work on easy trails, protection provided, an instructor in front of you. For teams that like a challenge.
The seminar and the ride. Meeting room in the morning, e-bike in the afternoon, lunch in between. The green day out in its complete form.
Each comes as a half day or a full day, and combines with a meal or a night on site. The detail of all five is on the corporate outings page.
What we bring, concretely
Exoride is organiser and provider at once. The bikes, the guides, the vehicles and the logistics are ours, which means one quote, one invoice and one phone number, instead of a chain of subcontractors passing the buck the day before the event.
A fleet of recent full-suspension e-bikes, set up for each participant, helmets and protection included. Swiss Cycling certified guides and instructors, trained in first aid. The Exo'bus for transport, up to 26 people and their bikes per rotation. Mechanical support and a spare bike on site, all day.
For the rest, restaurant or mountain hut meals, seminar room, a night on site, our network of partners in the Valais and French-speaking Switzerland covers what we do not do ourselves. Our clients tell it better than we do on the reviews page.
And the one who really does not want to pedal
There are often one or two, and it is not a problem. We put together an alternative activity for them with local providers, a visit, a hike, a workshop, so that they spend the day with the team and meet you again at lunch. Nobody stays at the office because they do not ride a bike.
Where it happens
Near your offices. We come with the bikes anywhere in French-speaking Switzerland: Geneva, Lausanne, Fribourg, Neuchatel, the Chablais. A start from your own car park, a return in time for the last train.
In the Valais, our home. The densest riding terrain in Switzerland, Verbier and the neighbouring valleys for the panoramas, and the Exo'base in Orsieres if the team stays the night.
Further afield, for an incentive. The Aosta Valley is an hour away by road; Tuscany and Morocco are also in our trip catalogue, and the experience built on those trips transfers directly to a multi-day corporate event.
What it costs
The principle is simple: a guiding fee per bracket of eight participants, plus an amount per person, and e-bike rental if your team does not own bikes.
For a full day, guiding starts at CHF 450 for one to eight participants, plus CHF 20 per person. For a half day, at CHF 300 plus CHF 15 per person. Renting a full-suspension e-bike is CHF 90 a day, CHF 70 a half day. Meals, room, transport and accommodation are quoted on top.
The full table, bracket by bracket, is on the corporate outings page, with enough to estimate your budget right away.
Where to start
A ten-minute call is usually enough: the number of participants, the profile of the group, the date, the place, and what you want out of the day. We come back with a programme and a clear quote, one you can circulate internally without having to explain it.
Ask for a quote, or call us directly on +41 79 644 59 29. Since 2010 we have run 1,246 events. Yours will not look like any of them, and that is rather the point.
Chris
